London has been battered by 50mph winds that have felled trees and caused travel chaos. Powerful gusts swept across the capital as the Met Office issued a yellow "be aware" weather alert for most of the country.

Pink Floyd

Women of a certain age went weak at the knees when Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet made a joint appearance in the West End last night. The Eighties pop groups attended the Carnaby Street launch of Careless Memories, a book of photographs of Duran Duran’s 1984 US tour. “There was a lot of madness on that tour,” recalled Le Bon, who was there with his wife, Yasmin. “There was madness on stage, off-stage, madness in the limo and in the hotel rooms.”

Three years into his solo concert tour of Pink Floyd’s rock opera The Wall, Waters made a 34-year-old album feel relevant and a little dangerous; crucially, he also created a prog-rock spectacular with monumental tunes

Vicky Pryce has only been in prison for three days but already there’s the groundswell of a Free VP Movement. Pryce’s brother, George Courmouzis, has called her sentence “cruel and unusual”; columnist Simon Jenkins has declared that “no proportionate justice” would commit her to jail, and even the Today programme’s Evan Davis said he thought the judge’s comments on Pryce being manipulative and devious “rubbed it in”.